Boyka Vasileva

Since completing her opera studies at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia in 1987, Boyka Vasileva has worked in mezzo repertoire — Italian, French, German, Russian and Bulgarian opera, with operetta, oratorio and music theatre alongside it, and character parts as readily as principal ones. She has been a soloist of State Opera Varna and sang Carmen in Sofia's Opera on the Square in 2002. She studied with Lilia Stefanova in Sofia and afterwards with Gino Bechi in Florence and Boris Christoff in Rome, and took prizes at the Svetoslav Obretenov competition and at the competition in Adria. Carmen, Amneris, Azucena, Ulrica and Dorabella are among her roles, and she has recorded for Bulgarian National Radio.